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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds for kde3 beta etc.
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 10:50:24
Message-Id: 20011226105024.C13258@chiba.3jane.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds for kde3 beta etc. by Bart Verwilst
1 On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 02:46:48PM +0100, Bart Verwilst wrote:
2 > Hello!
3 >
4 > My mail server is back online, so here i am again, i hope i didn't
5 > miss too much of all this though :o(
6 > One of the main reasons that i asked on IRC if we could have our
7 > crew.gentoo.org/verwilst or people.gentoo.org/verwilst dirs, is for
8 > stuff like this... The ebuilds that would be posted on each dev's
9 > 'personal' site will generally be of much better quality then loose
10 > ebuilds found anywhere else... Having those 'pre-portage' ebuilds helps
11 > us refine and test the ebuilds without making some user messing up his
12 > system if he/she decides to ignore all the warnings and disclaimers..
13 > For the KDE3 ebuilds, if danarmak and me use them before KDE3 final is
14 > released, we'll have a rock-solid eclass implementation of the multi-.
15 > KDE's and qt's... ( And ofcourse our bugreports to KDE will help
16 > producing a better KDE 3 release, but that's another story ;o)
17 > But gentoo-users should have the option of using stable ebuilds for
18 > their alpha/beta software, or they'll make their own ebuilds, and break
19 > maybe even more on their system :)
20
21 You can already set up http://cvs.gentoo.org/~verwilst using a public_html
22 dir, if you like. You just need to make it possible for anyone to rx your
23 homedir and your public_html directory.
24
25 --
26 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
27 Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org
28 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.